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BACKGROUND: The study analyzes penalties imposed on organizations for breaching safety and health regulations. The research questions are as follows: what are the commonly breached safety and health regulations? How proportional are penalties imposed on organizations for breaching health and safety regulations in the United Kingdom? METHODS: The study employed sequential explanatory mixed research strategies for better understanding of health and safety penalties imposed on organizations. Actual health and safety convictions and penalties data for 10 years (2006 to 2016) were obtained through the United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive (HSE) public register for convictions. Overall, 2,217 health and safety cases were analyzed amounting to total fines of £37,179,916, in addition to other wide-ranging penalties. For thorough understanding, eight interviews were conducted with industry practitioners, lawyers, and HSE officials as part of the study qualitative data. RESULTS: Findings show that the Health and Safety at Work (HSW) Act accounted for 46% of all HSE prosecution cases in the last decade. This is nearly half of the total safety and health at work prosecutions. Moreover, there is widespread desire for organizations to comply with the HSW Act, but route fines are seen as burdensome and inimical to business growth. CONCLUSION: A key deduction from the study reveal significant disproportionality concerning penalties imposed on organizations for breaching safety and health regulations. On aggregate, small companies tend to pay more for health and safety offenses in a ratio of 1:2 compared to large companies. The study also reveals that the HSW Act accounted for nearly half of the total safety and health at work prosecutions in the last decade.
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Humans , Commerce , United Kingdom , Lawyers , Social Control, FormalABSTRACT
Antecedentes: Los factores de riesgo de carga física son los de mayor impacto en el país de acuerdo a la II Encuesta de Condiciones de Seguridad y Salud en el sistema de riesgos laborales, demostrando que hacen falta programas y planes encaminados a la prevención de las lesiones musculoesqueléticas que de ellos se generan, hecho que sustenta la Organización Iberoamericana de Seguridad Social, que enfatiza en la creación de programas preventi-vos en riesgos laborales. Objetivos: Analizar la producción bibliográfica relacionada con los factores de riesgo de carga física y lumbalgia ocupacional. Metodología: Mediante revisión bibliográfica, con bases científicas y estu-dios relacionados en el área, se analizará la relación entre los riesgos de carga física y la lumbalgia ocupacional. Resultados: La búsqueda bibliográfica evidenció que los factores de riesgos de carga física conllevan a desórdenes musculoesqueléticos, entre ellos, la lumbalgia ocupacional, y pueden generar enfermedades laborales, incapaci-dad laboral y aumentar el ausentismo, impactando negativamente el sistema de gestión de seguridad y salud en el trabajo de las empresas en Colombia
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